Sharp County record., 1887-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PETER BARLOW, who TOOK part N Tue
American revolution under Gsueral
w Washington. died recently in Demarara,
aged one hundred aud thirty years.
A Prominent dignitary Of the Catholic
Church at New York puts forth state
ment Of the position Of the church toward
American citizenship.
PISKERToy's detectives in the Pennsyi-
vauia coke regions have added much bit
teruess 10 the strife between employers
and the strikers.
GENERAL LAMOUR, charged with at
tempting TO murder President Solomon
of Hayti, has been sentenced to imprison-
ment for life at hard labor.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has ruled that
enforced absence Of eutrymeu from land
on account Of drought does not imperIl
the clam if proof Of the cause Of absence
is made.
THE Pope has decided to unite the do
cess Of Wichita and Concordia with that
of Leavenworth, Kas., and the dioceses OF
Lincoln and Cheyenne with that OF
Omaha.
AT the meeting Of the First Assembly
district, United Labor party, n New York
on the night Of the 5th, Rev. DR.. Edward
McGlYnn was elected delegate TO the
National convention at Syracuse on
August IS.
GEO. THOMPSON, broker, aged twenty
two years; Ms1 Eigmauu, aged thirty-six
and Alfred W Reuchen, aged twenty
four, committed suicide in New York on
the 9Th
JAMES CHRIsTIAysOy, a Dane, fatally
shot Dr. Eugene B. North at Peru Ind,
on the 6 h. The murderer was at once ar
rested and locked up. About mid night ne
was taken from the jail by forty mas ked
men and hanged to a crOss-piece OF
brid ge spanning ths Wabash river
President CLEVELAND has written a
letter to Mayor Francis Of st. Louis, IN
which he says he has decided not to at
tend the G. A. r eucampment, and set
ting forth at length his reasons therefor.
A MAD dog running at large in Hunting
ton. Long Island, on the 9Th, bit twenty
i've other dogs. Fifteen Of the dogs were
shot, and the others will also be killed
AN explosion Of gun cotton occurred on
the 9Th in the powder mill at St Medard
en- JalIe, eight miles northwest Of Bor-
deaux. France. Three persons were
blown to atoms and many others were IN
jured.
ATTENDANTS McHugh and CIeary, who
were lately placed in custody by tue Ver-
dict Of a coroner's jury who accused them
Of beating an inmate Of Ward Is and IN.
Y)Insane asylum named George Farris, so
brutalIy that the man died, have been in
indicted for mansIaughter by the grand
Jury.
NJ. RIsTICs, the Serviau Pre- emisr, de-
mands that King Milan recall and rein
state the Metropolitan who was exiled to
Russia for his alleged connection with
the late revolutionary onspiracy. liking
Milan refuses the ministry will resign.
WORMS are destroying the cranberry
vines in the vicinity of Berlin, Wis. 1t is
feared the vines will be permanently in
iured. One grower who expected to
harvest Is, 900 bushels will not get any.
FIRE completely destroyed the stock Of
dry goods Of Cowhick & Whitcomb, at
CHEYENNE, Wy. T., on the 6th, valued at
$3.50 and damaged the building $1,000.
The stock was insured for 800 0O0 and the
building for S9j00.
THE Treasury Department has decide |
that an American vessel which arrived at
New York with cargo Of fish caught on
the coast Of Newfoundland is exempt from
the continued supervision Of customs Of
ficers on the ground that she did not clear
from foreign port and because her cargo
was free from duty.
TIE fourth annual convention Of the
United States VIpor Stove Manufactur'
ers' Association began at Cleveland, D.,
on the 6h The association represents
about twenty-five Of the leading firms
manufacturing gasoline stoves in differ
ent cities Of the country.
MARK SHANNON, Of Painesville, O.,
sculptor, welLknown IN the principal
cities Of the country, met with horri BILE
death at Erie, Pa, on the B5h. He was at
work on the Government building being
erected under the direction Of Supervis-
ing-Architect Bell. A misstep precipitat-
ed him from the roof to the ground. His
body was crushed, and death resulted i'm
meditely.
IT it reported from Idaho that number
Of Chinese mining camps along Snake
river have been raided by either Indians
or whites. Numerous mutilated bodies
of Cinnamon have been found, four or
five being discovered together few days
since. It is thought to be the work Of
men who robbed the Chinese Of their gold
dust
DELEGATES from various portions Of
California closed three days secret ses-
sion at San Francisco on the 9Th, after
formulating a plan for the organization
Of the American party. A mass meeting
was held in the evening, preceded by a
street parade and display Of fireworks,
at which the platform Of the new party
was read and adopted
AID PARANT, the defaulting cashier Of
the Hochelaga bank Of Montreal, arrested
at Buffalo, y. Y, recently, was handed
over to Chicago detectives on the 9th,
who had requisltion papers for the
prisoner. Parant will be prose cuted in
Chicago under an Illinois State law for
having stolen funds and securities OF the
bank in his possession there.
EDWARD DOUGLASS, Of McGregor, Ia,
has been disbarred from practising as an
attorney before the Interior Department
The Government receipts from July to
7th, amounted to i5, Al, ,6S4, and the expen-
ditures to SIS, 567, 467, or sl0,0s9, SOB in ex-
cess Of the receipts.
TIE Missouri Supreme Court overruled
the motion for rehearing in the Max
we'll case, and extended the day Of execu-
tion TO August g.
PRINCE FERDINAND of SAKE -Coburg-
Gotha was chosen Prince Of Bulgaria by
the Sobranje on the 7th.
THE coroner held an iuuuest at Peru,